book review : legendborn
Genre: Fantasy Reading age: 13+ Rating: 7/10 Another Tiktok sensation ticked off my list… I’m a big fan of the legend of King Arthur and attended a school which had a lot of influences from the legend, so once I heard it was reimagined with an element of black girl magic, this book immediately joined by TBR list. However I have mixed emotions about the story itself. For me it was hard to get stuck into and it took me much longer than usual to finish, but that being said I definitely added the second instalment of the series into my Amazon cart, once I finished this one. Even though the story is rooted in black girl magic, it doesn’t really feel that way. I think this comes from the fact that book is about a secret society with powerful white kids and for the majority of the story, the black girl is the outsider. Despite this, race is a central theme within the story, which is why I would go as far to say there’s an element of historical fiction to it with recurring references to slaver